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January Challenge - Deadline Jan 31

Thanks everyone for participating! I've given you 10 community points! And congrats to our random winner Diana! Be sure to stop and visit all the layouts and leave some love! Look forward to your projects for February.

Are you working on a daily/weekly/monthly project for 2013? Share you progress, advice and questions here!

Upload any layouts for January to our gallery for 10 community points and a chance to win 50 bonus download credits! To be eligible you must tag your layout with "january 2013 challenge" and don't forget to post it here!

I don't know if that counts, but I started my weight loss diary, and so far have made 3 layouts for it. But since I have 41 kg to lose (big SIGH), it will take me all year, so it's not a January project, but more of a 2013 project- don't know if this is what was asked for in this challenge...

Okay, here is my so-far-January-progress in my weight loss diary- it's not only about my weight loss, but more a book about me- I never scrapped about myself and thought my diet would be a good chance to change that. It will be an all-year-project, and the final book should be 120 pages (the maximum number allowed for the photobooks I have printed)... so I won't be able to keep up that frequency, but well, I'm uber-motivated now ;D... it's personal, but not so personal that I don't dare to post it... I have to face the facts: the weight has to come down.
Here are the 4 layouts I have finished so far:

I´ve made this layout for the January challenge. It´s about a wonderful proyect I´d like to share with you.
One of my dreams it´s to write a children´s book; and I have an idea haunting in my mind for a long time ago...
And this is the perfect moment for a start!!

I have a project that I really want to finish...actually, never had a chance to start it. I bought this wooden album that holds 50 pages of 4" x 6" BB pages. I wanted to give it to my parents for their 50th wedding anniversary...didn't make that deadline this year. Now my Mom is seriously ill so the sense of urgency I feel is even greater. Could I create 2 brag book pages and that could count as one layout? I think this forum challenge may be the motivation I need to complete this project.

I had tons of brag book page templates, but I lost them with 1 of 2 harddrive crashes. Since I don't normally scrap 4"x6", I don't have many templates or sketches. Anyplace offhand where I can get these?

That is a fantastic layout. Best of luck on your book. I started my first book last fall and it will be in Amazon within the next few weeks. It was a great experience. Hope yours is too. (Ugh - I was trying to reply to the lady whose goal is to write a children's book.)

My goal this year is to create something every day. I made a blog for it, but haven't thought about scrapbooking it yet. I am so far behind on scrapbooks of really great vacations that I don't want to start another one just yet

I've been working on a daily art journal for my blog. My plan is to complete a page a day, telling a story and composing a single page layout to go with it. I'm on day 3 now so I'm off to make the new page.

This month I will occupy myself with making a scrapbook as a present for my boyfriend. He studied in South-Korea for a couple of months in 2008 and made a lot of pictures during his time there, but never did anything with it. Since he was reminiscing about it lately, I thought it would make a nice present. At this time I only made the front cover and the first page of the book, so there is still a lot to do.
The first page I actually made according to the scraplift challenge of this past week, but I just discovered that I was only a moment too late to submit it in order to participate in the challenge.

My project for January (and the entire year) is to actually SCRAP more! I spend more time purchasing products because they look so awesome, but I don't spend enough time to actually scrap! A big problem is, I was a paper scrapper for 10 years before I even learned digital scrapping existed, so... I am not real savvy when it comes to using PSE. I can scrap using a template, but if it has a ton of layers, I start getting frustrated. So another part of my project is to start participating in challenges, take classes, and learn more than I have ever tried to learn in the past. I hope by March I can challenge myself to make at least a handful of layouts per week...I need to wait to see what is going to be realistic for me.

So in a nutshell, my project is to learn more, use more (of my oh-hand stash), and to start an online gallery of my work and progress (as well as use my blog).

I finished another three spread layouts this week for the scrapbook I'm making as a present for my boyfriend from his time studying in South Korea. He's not a big fan of the use of many embellishments, so I had to restrain myself a little in not adding to much stuff on the pages .

For the second one I made use of the Superlatives kit of Marisa and it includes pictures of his student dormitory. It can be found here.

For the third one I also made use of the Superlatives kit of Marisa and it includes pictures of the dormitory's view and some of the activities which were often conducted behind his laptop. It can be found here.